#crime-and-justice-system

[kesarijournal]

Wagner PMC 'coup' in Russia

[reasonsforhope]

"Expanding freedom and opportunity to millions

Over a decade ago, researchers, policymakers, journalists, and individuals and family members harmed by prisons and jails helped define American mass incarceration as one of the fundamental policy challenges of our time. In the years since, policymakers and voters in red, blue, and purple jurisdictions have advanced criminal justice reforms that safely reduced prison and jail populations, expanding freedom and opportunities to tens of millions of Americans.

After nearly forty years of uninterrupted prison population growth, our collective awareness of the costs of mass incarceration has fundamentally shifted–and our sustained efforts to turn the tide have yielded meaningful results.

Since its peak in 2009, the number of people in prison has declined by 24 percent (see figure 1). The total number of people incarcerated has dropped 21 percent since the 2008 peak of almost 2.4 million people, representing over 500,000 fewer people behind bars in 2022. Absent reforms, more than 40 million more people would have been admitted to prison and jail over this period. The number of people on probation and parole supervision has also dropped 27 percent since its peak in 2007, allowing many more people to live their lives free from onerous conditions that impede thriving and, too often, channel them back into incarceration for simple rule violations.1

"Absent reforms, more than 40 million more people would have been admitted to prison and jail over this period. [2008 to 2022]"

Make no mistake: mass incarceration and the racial and economic disparities it drives continue to shape America for the worse. The U.S. locks up more people per capita and imposes longer sentences than most other countries. Nearly 1-in-2 adults in the U.S. have an immediate family member that has been incarcerated, with lifelong, often multigenerational, consequences for family members’ health and financial stability. Yet the past decade of successful reforms demonstrate that we can and must continue to reduce incarceration. These expansions of freedom and justice–and the millions of people they have impacted–help define what is at stake as public safety has reemerged as a dominant theme in American public and political conversation.

...We have a robust body of research built over decades showing that jail stays and long prison sentences do not reduce crime rates. And fortunately, we have an extensive and expanding body of research on what does work to reduce crime and keep communities safe. The evidence is clear: our focus must be on continuing and accelerating reductions in incarceration.

Black imprisonment rate drops by nearly half

People directly impacted by incarceration and other leaders in the criminal justice reform movement have persistently called out how the unequal application of policies such as bail, sentencing, and parole (among others) drive massive racial disparities in incarceration. The concerted effort to reduce our prison population has had the most impact on the group that paid the greatest price during the rise of mass incarceration: Black people, and particularly Black men.

The Black imprisonment rate has declined by nearly 50 percent since the country’s peak imprisonment rate in 2008 (see figure 2). And between 1999 and 2019, the Black male incarceration rate dropped by 44 percent, and notable declines in Black male incarceration rates were seen in all 50 states. For Black men, the lifetime risk of incarceration declined by nearly half from 1999 to 2019—from 1 in 3 Black men imprisoned in their lifetime to 1 in 5.

While still unacceptably high, this reduction in incarceration rates means that Black men are now more likely to graduate college than go to prison, a flip from a decade ago. This change will help disrupt the cycle of incarceration and poverty for generations to come.

Expanding safety and justice together

The past decade-plus of incarceration declines were accompanied by an increase in public safety. From 2009-2022, 45 states saw reductions in crime rates, while imprisoning fewer people, with crime falling faster in states that reduced imprisonment than in states that increased it.

This is in keeping with the extensive body of research showing that incarceration is among the least effective and most expensive means to advance safety. Our extremely long sentences don’t deter or prevent crime. In fact, incarcerating people can increase the likelihood people will return to jail or prison in the future. Public safety and a more fair and just criminal system are not in conflict.

Strong and widespread support for reform

We have also seen dramatic progress on the public opinion front, with a clear understanding from voters that the criminal justice system needs more reform, not less. Recent polling shows that by a nearly 2 to 1 margin respondents prefer addressing social and economic problems over strengthening law enforcement to reduce crime. [In simpler terms: people are twice as likely to prefer non-law-enforcement solutions to crimes.]

Nearly nine-in-ten Black adults say policing, the judicial process, and the prison system need major changes for Black people to be treated fairly. Seventy percent of all voters (see figure 3) and 80 percent of Black voters believe it’s important to reduce the number of people in jail and prison. Eighty percent of all voters, including nearly three-fourths of Republican voters, support criminal justice reforms.

This is not only a blue state phenomenon. Recent polling in Mississippi indicates strong support across the political spectrum for bold policies that reduce incarceration. For example, according to polling from last month, 72 percent of Mississippians, including majorities from both parties, believe it is important to reduce the number of people in prison (see figure 4). Perhaps most tellingly, across the country victims of crime also support further reforms to our criminal justice system over solutions that rely on jail stays and harsh prison sentences...

We are at an inflection point: we can continue to rely on the failed mass incarceration tactics of the past, or chart a new path that takes safety seriously by continuing to reform our broken criminal justice system and strengthening families and communities."

-via FWD.us, May 15, 2024

[awesomecooperlove]

LIES, LIES, LIES ENDLESS LIES… TIME TO WAKE UP HUMANITY

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[teaboot]

Did you know there's fascists, eugenicists and overall bigots following you?

And defending you doing security work? You're doing a bad job making minorities feel safe around you.

I know you can be better.

You. You realize I can't control that, right

[brodyfoxxsmassivetits]

CHOP SUEY!

when I say I've got parasites in my head I just mean the sad little green man the jingles around in there btw

i feel like if I don't draw him enough I'm like a POSER Eduardo fan..which I just can't have

need to be duining it up MONTHLY!!... weekly!!!!!...daily?

daily duin blog incoming????

I've got many an opinion on him post the-end

a HUSK of his former abrasive kinda awful self. I don't think grieving makes him less awful of a person but it definitely makes him think, but mostly lay in bed and wallow...and cry

Bros getting his eyeliner everywhere cleanup on isle him

I like the idea of him being..well horrible and distraught while mark is completely fine(in denial)

call him the grim reaper the way bitches die after he touches them, a kill count of TWO is not good big dawg..not good at all

anyways while I'm Eduardo posting here's other doodles I also like(FEATURING HIM??!?)

[alwaysbewoke]

[jangillman]

[coldflasher]

currently thinking about the fact that cisco and caitlin basically didn't have real jobs for almost a decade. they spent all day at S.T.A.R labs chatting to barry on comms, making maguffins and administering medical treatment at extremely unreliable intervals with no consistently defined job role.

their best friend is essentially their boss??? barry owns the lab and he presumably pays them to be there, since they don't have any other jobs (bar caitlin's brief stints as an employee at mercury labs/bartender/amunet's lackey). but what is he paying them to do?? obviously they're always saving the world and shit but what the hell were they doing the rest of the time? just hanging out at the lab, which presumably has no funding because like. the last time they did a big experiment they blew up half the city?? i know a lot of office jobs are kind of nothingy and people claim to be able to do all their work in like 2 hours (god i wish i had that kind of job lmao) but seriously it's kinda insane that barry was like "hey do you guys wanna just. hang out here all day and occasionally make gadgets and patch me up whenever i get my ass kicked and i'll keep paying you your normal salary"

[curmemini]

I think if the trial commencement video confirms what I suspect happen, we could have a very interesting conversation about enabling and the way abuse cycles perpetrate; unfortunately, i think everyone's knee-jerk opinions will crowd out that discussion.

regardless, I do think it's incredibly poetic and more than a little heartbreaking that we are getting this result largely from ignoring the systematic abuse of a child while encouraging the same tenants that lead to such structures in another.

T1 decided a lot by tying Mahiru, Shidou, Amane and Kotoko's fates together as tightly as they did. T2 truly felt more like damage control, trying to stop what had already been set in motion by the enabling of our fangs, of the further abuse of a twelve year old. Well we're on T3 soon. The worst has happened. We presumably don't have anyone else in immediate danger of dying. How are we going to vote? Are you going to uphold the system that led to this result?

[turnaboutstar]

phoenix literally had to change the legal system to do all of this as he should but kristophs reaction is so ajjsjsjskjsns

[kesarijournal]

The Grand Chessboard of Espionage: A Tale of Khalistanis, Farmer Activists, and the Invisible Hand of Intelligence Agencies

Khalsa Ah, the dramatic, intriguing, and painful world of international espionage! A realm where nothing is as it seems, and where a pawn can become a queen, or more likely, a casualty in the blink of an eye. Today, we delve into the murky waters of the recent spate of deaths among Khalistani and farmer activists. Grab your trench coat and dark glasses, dear reader, because we’re about to embark…

[rockturbot]

The good old days when evidence law was still longer than three (3) pages😌

[awesomecooperlove]

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[jesseleelazyblog]

Wrongful Execution Scheduled for Oct 17

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[thoughtportal]

[comparativelysuperlative]

Arguing about my complete Luigi Mangione opinions would get both sides mad, which is fine. But it would also distract from the part where I'm just correct, which is that Alvin Bragg charged a guy with a crime he has to know he's innocent of, and, worse, that's pretty normal for prosecutors.

Fundamentally I care more about Bragg's behavior than Mangione's because one of those two people is likely to get someone killed in the next year.